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obovate-orbicular, about three-fourths of an inch in diameter, most of 

 them subcordate, some of them scarcely so, 3-7-plinerved from near 

 the base, veiny, crenate-toothed or doubly crenate, with the coarser 

 incisions few, and the obtuse teeth at first bristle-pointed. Peduncles 

 one-flowered, umbellate-crowded, even in fruit shorter than the petioles. 

 Bractlets of the involucel 3, linear, glabrous, not ciliate, shorter than 

 the calyx. Calyx 3 lines in length, five-cleft to the middle; the lobes 

 ovate, rather obtuse, pilose with soft hairs on the inside, but exter- 

 nally glabrous. Corolla nearly twice the length of the calyx, pale 

 purple ? (the colour not recorded) . Stamineal column simple, anthe- 

 riferous only at the summit. Styles 12 or 13, united below the 

 middle : stigmas capitate. Ovary glabrous ; the cells uniovulate. 

 Ovule peritropous-ascending; the micropyle inferior. Fruit glabrous, 

 depressed : carpels rather membranaceous, indehiscent, reniform, with 

 the compressed summit more extended than the base, muticous, that 

 is, wholly awnless and pointless both at the apex and dorsally, but 

 the angles down the back muricate with 3 or 4 soft and long teeth. 

 Seed reniform. Radicle inferior. 



In Sir William Hooker's herbarium are specimens of this plant 

 gathered at Cerro Pasco by Matthews, along with an allied but pilose 

 species, which is perhaps the same as the following. 



7. Malvastrum Richii, Sp. Nov. 



M. acaule, pilis stellatis hirsutum; radice napiformi; foliis rotundatis 

 subcordatis duplicato-dentatis vel incisis; floribus in collo umbellato- 

 congestis; pedunculis unifloris petiolis brevioribus ; bracteolis involucelli 

 2-3 exiguis. 



Hab. Near Obrajillo or Banos, Andes of Peru. 



A very small, depressed, strictly stemless plant, hirsute all over with 

 rather soft, fulvous, stellate hairs; the clustered foliage and the pedun- 

 cles growing directly from the crown of the thick and fleshy, peren- 

 nial, turnip-shaped root. Petioles half an inch to an inch long. Leaves 

 roundish, some of them slightly cordate at the base, half an inch in 

 diameter, coarsely doubly-toothed or incised, strongly five-ribbed, thickly 



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